Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground

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The Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground is a cricket ground located in the city of Nagpur.[1]

LocationNagpur
CountryIndia
Establishment1929 (First match recorded)
Capacity40,000
Quick facts Ground information, Location ...
Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground
VCA Ground
VCA Ground, Civil Lines, Nagpur
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Ground information
LocationNagpur
CountryIndia
Establishment1929 (First match recorded)
Capacity40,000
OwnerVidarbha Cricket Association
OperatorVidarbha Cricket Association
End names
Jaika End
Church End
International information
First men's Test3 October 1965:
 India v  New Zealand
Last men's Test1 March 2006:
 India v  England
First men's ODI23 January 1985:
 India v  England
Last men's ODI14 October 2007:
 India v  Australia
Only women's ODI18 December 1997:
 Australia v  England
As of 9 December 2019
Source: Cricinfo
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The ground is known as the VCA Ground and is located in Central Zone. Its first match was played in October 1969. As of 19 August 2017, it has hosted nine Tests and 14 ODIs.

Its role as an international venue has been succeeded by the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, but it continues to be used as a domestic cricket ground by the Vidarbha and Uttar Pradesh cricket teams.

In 1995, during the 5th ODI between India and New Zealand, a wall in the East Stand collapsed, killing 9 people and injuring 70 others.[2]

History

The ground is the tenth Test venue in India.

Chetan Sharma took the first Cricket World Cup hat-trick. With the wickets of Ken Rutherford, Ian Smith and Ewen Chatfield in Nagpur.[3]

Sunil Gavaskar performed a one-day, World Cup century for India against New Zealand in their final league encounter of the 1987 Reliance World Cup.

The pitch's wickets were re-layed in 1999. Strangely, the wicket was constructed with a 30-inch deep, double-brick layer (normally there is a 15-inch brick layer). This facilitates extra pace and bounce.

The local critics were up-in-arms at how the curator ignored the home team's cause and prepared a fast wicket that helped the opposition fast bowlers. But the curator insisted that he had simply followed the instructions of the pitch panel. Today Nagpur is one of the only grounds to assist genuine fast bowlers in pace and movement and several first-class games in the 2004/05 season ended within three days as the medium-pacers reaped rich rewards.

Records

Test

Batting

Bowling

One Day International

Batting

Bowling

List of Centuries

Key

  • * denotes that the batsman was not out.
  • Inns. denotes the number of the innings in the match.
  • Balls denotes the number of balls faced in an innings.
  • NR denotes that the number of balls was not recorded.
  • Parentheses next to the player's score denotes his century number at Edgbaston.
  • The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
  • The column title Result refers to the player's team result

Test Centuries

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No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateResult
1131Mohinder Amarnath India3012 Sri Lanka27 December 1986Won[4]
2153Dilip Vengsarkar India–2 Sri Lanka27 December 1986Won[4]
3107Navjot Singh Sidhu India2311 West Indies1 December 1994Draw[5]
4179Sachin Tendulkar India3221 West Indies1 December 1994Draw[5]
5125*Jimmy Adams West Indies3122 India1 December 1994Draw[5]
6110Shiv Sunder Das India1751 Zimbabwe25 November 2000Draw[6]
7162Rahul Dravid India3011 Zimbabwe25 November 2000Draw[6]
8201*Sachin Tendulkar India2811 Zimbabwe25 November 2000Draw[6]
9106*Grant Flower Zimbabwe1962 India25 November 2000Draw[6]
10102Alistair Campbell Zimbabwe1863 India25 November 2000Draw[6]
11232*Andy Flower Zimbabwe4443 India25 November 2000Draw[6]
12105Shiv Sunder Das India2032 Zimbabwe21 February 2002Won[7]
13176Sachin Tendulkar India3162 Zimbabwe21 February 2002Won[7]
14100*Sanjay Bangar India1552 Zimbabwe21 February 2002Won[7]
15114Damien Martyn Australia1651 India26 October 2004Won[8]
16134*Paul Collingwood England2521 India1 March 2006Draw[9]
17104*Alastair Cook England2433 India1 March 2006Draw[9]
18100Wasim Jaffer India1984 England1 March 2006Won[9]
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One Day Internationals

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No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateResult
1103*Sunil Gavaskar India882 New Zealand31 October 1987Won[10]
2101*Ravi Shastri India1471 Sri Lanka1 December 1990Won[11]
3104Aravinda de Silva Sri Lanka1242 India1 December 1990Lost[11]
4114Nathan Astle New Zealand1281 India26 November 1995Won[12]
5130*Saurav Ganguly India1601 Sri Lanka22 March 1999Won[13]
6116Rahul Dravid India1181 Sri Lanka22 March 1999Won[13]
7103Chris Gayle West Indies1162 India9 November 2002Won[14]
8149*Shivnarine Chanderpaul West Indies1362 India21 January 2007Lost[15]
9107*Andrew Symonds Australia881 India14 October 2007Won[16]
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List of Five Wicket Hauls

Key

More information Symbol, Meaning ...
Symbol Meaning
† The bowler was man of the match
‡ 10 or more wickets taken in the match
§ One of two five-wicket hauls by the bowler in the match
Date Day the Test started or ODI was held
Inn Innings in which five-wicket haul was taken
Overs Number of overs bowled.
Runs Number of runs conceded
Wkts Number of wickets taken
Econ Runs conceded per over
Batsmen Batsmen whose wickets were taken
Drawn The match was drawn.
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Tests

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No. Bowler Date Team Opposing team Inn Overs Runs Wkts Econ Batsmen Result
1Srinivas Venkataraghavan3 October 1969 India New Zealand330.17462.45 Lost[17]
2Hedley Howarth3 October 1969 New Zealand India4233451.47 Won[17]
3Ravi Shastri †5 October 1983 India Pakistan230.47552.44 Drawn[18]
4Mohammad Nazir5 October 1983 Pakistan India3507251.44 Drawn[18]
5Shivlal Yadav27 December 1986 India Sri Lanka119.17653.96 Won[4]
6Maninder Singh †27 December 1986 India Sri Lanka317.45172.88 Won[4]
7Carl Hooper1 December 1994 West Indies India14011652.9 Draw[5]
8Venkatapathy Raju1 December 1994 India India25012752.54 Draw[5]
9Ravindra Pushpakumara26 November 1997 Sri Lanka India13212253.81 Draw[19]
10Ray Price21 February 2002 Zimbabwe India26818252.67 Lost[7]
11Anil Kumble21 February 2002 India Zimbabwe3376351.7 Won[7]
12Jason Gillespie26 October 2004 Australia India222.55652.45 Won[8]
13Matthew Hoggard1 March 2006 England India230.55761.84 Draw[9]
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One Day Internationals

More information No., Bowler ...
No. Bowler Date Team Opposing team Inn Overs Runs Wkts Econ Batsmen Result
1Patrick Patterson8 December 1987 West Indies India29.42963.00 Won[20]
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